Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Death is better than slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the — Harriet Ann Jacobs
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pa — Harriet Ann Jacobs
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible fo — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves abo — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and a — Harriet Ann Jacobs
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an un — Harriet Ann Jacobs
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. — Harriet Ann Jacobs